Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy on your toes...
...students-about half boys and half girls-do their own chores, wait on table, mow lawns, and clerk in the school store. For eight weeks each year, in place of English classes, they get special religious instruction: a study of ancient religions, selections from the Old Testament, the life and teaching of Jesus, the history and teachings of Quakerism...
...picture was reminiscent of the terrible black & white mass of photographs that had illustrated the war and the war-crimes trials. It also recalled the fierce word pictures of how Old Testament warriors dealt with their enemies. It showed the mutilated bodies of 35 young Haganah fighters who had been ambushed by Arabs at Kfar Etzion, in the lonely hills of Hebron...
...prophets, and at the same time the most Christ-like." Commanded by Jehovah to take no wife, Jeremiah reveals himself in his writings as a lonely and humble man whose life was torn between two loves, "my people" and "my God." Writes Paterson: "The other prophets of the Old Testament seem to stand at the side of God and hurl their words of doom down upon the people, but Jeremiah seems to stand between the people and God and gather to his own bosom all the shafts of the divine indignation...
Revelation. The Protestant reformers changed the position of the prophetic books from the middle of the Old Testament (as they are in the Hebrew Bible) to the end. This, says Author Paterson, was a sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for 'Him who is to come.' . . . For there is a profound organic connection between the Old Testament and the New, and nowhere more than in the prophets do we feel the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'In the Old Testament the New lies concealed...